Keren Rosenbaum - interdisciplinary composer
a multi-faceted composer, video artist, and interdisciplinary creator and performer.

Born in Israel, 1970. A prolific composer and talented flautist from a very young age, Rosenbaum studied with renowned Israeli composers Arie Shapira and Leon Shidlovski during her studies at Tel Aviv University. She continued developing her distinctive style at the Royal Conservatory, The Hague, where she studied composition and electronic music with Giljius Van Bergeijk Diderik Wagenaar, Roderik de Man, Clarence Barlow and Louis Andrissen.

After directing and producing "New Voices", the first interdisciplinary festival in Israel, she founded the body that would become the main vehicle for her musical and artistic vision – the Reflex Ensemble, a unique collective of classical musicians (including players from the Israeli Philharmonic and the Tel Aviv Opera), jazz musicians and actors, as well as lighting, sound, photography and video artists, from Israel and Europe.

The ensemble embodies the vision of “the new orchestra”, which challenges the old-school classical music tradition in its focus on performance, openness to new technologies, incorporating lighting and sound artists as equal members, and choosing not to stage its performances in concert halls.

In her compositions, Rosenbaum employs pre-recorded soundtracks, live electronics, contemporary notation, and her signature conducting-via-earphones technique. While structured and choreographed, the music allows for a degree of freedom that both provides room for personal expression and demands a higher sense of aesthetical responsibility from each performer. Rosenbaum tests the ‘prerequisites’ of traditional harmony and melody, and offers a no less aesthetic alternative, using strong lines, repetitions and textures, combined with a striking visual performance.

Rosenbaum’s work with Reflex, as well as with other acclaimed performers, have established her as a prominent force in the Israeli and European contemporary music scene. In recent years, Rosenbaum’s music has been performed by the Czeck Philharmonic Ostrova, the Israeli contemporary ensemble Musica Nova, the Maarten Altena Ensemble, and others. In early 2001, Rosenbaum was invited as guest artist by the renowned "Rijksacademi" in Amsterdam to work on the video art for her upcoming opera "Chat", scheduled for 2006 in New York. The same year she was invited to attend the 10th "International Musikwerkstatt 2001", followed by two performances of her pieces in Berlin. In 2004 Rosenbaum debuted “Contra Voice” for bass solo and electronic soundtrack, performed by Swiss bassist Cristin Wildbolz, as part of a worldwide tour, in collaboration with the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF).

Keren Rosenbaum is currently represented worldwide by
Sorek Artists Management
Den Haag, The Nethelands.T + 31 70 3317902
F + 31 70 3317903
e.sorke@planet.nlOther contact information: Keren Rosenbaum
Cell: (917) 224-5728

 

 


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